Catalogue · ID 176
Заявление ГКЧП
Author: Государственный комитет по чрезвычайному положению в СССР
Year of publication: 1991
Published in: заявление от 18.08.1991; подписали Янаев Г., Павлов В., Бакланов О.
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: free (Wikimedia: CC BY-SA 4.0 or public domain)
What is here
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Original source: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Заявление_ГКЧП_от_18.08.1991
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Where the knowledge base cites it
This material is cited in 3 places.
Campaigns
- Non-Recognition and the Attempted Military Invasion: Moscow's Response to the Independence of the Chechen Republic (September-November 1991)
On 18 August the USSR vice-president Yanaev, together with the heads of the KGB (predecessor of today's FSB), the army and the police, tried to keep the union in Moscow's hands by force: they announced that the nominal head of the USSR, Gorbachev, could not govern "for reasons of health", declared a state of emergency and brought tanks into Moscow, but gave up after three days
- Attempted Coup d'État by the GKChP (August 1991)
Moscow time on August 19, 1991… to form the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR"
Procedures
- Attempted Coup d'État by the GKChP (August 1991) — technique Staging a Coup
…statement of 18 August 1991 announced the transfer of the USSR president's powers: "In connection with the impossibility, for reasons of health, of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev performing the duties of President of the USSR and the transfer… of the powers of the President of the USSR to Vice-President Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev… to form the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR"